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As men get older their testosterone product falls this is a completely natural occurrence. But not only that a man’s natural testosterone stores can be “locked away” so that they can’t be accessed by your body. The side effect of this can be seen in symptoms such as “low sexual desire and function”, “interrupted sleep patterns”, “increased body fat storage”, “decreased muscle mass” and “severe mood swings”.

However there is an easy solution to these common issues, and they are very common. Low testosterone is seen in as much as 2% of men over 30, 5% of men over 40 and 20% of men over 70. So if you have been felling tired a lot, fatigued , cranky, and with low sex drive this very well could be the reason, you are suffering from low testosterone. Some have even called it Male Menopause, or Men-O-Pause for short.

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Tourmaline gemstone is a semi-precious mineral similar to granite. With colors ranging from magenta to teal-blue, meadow-green to vibrant yellow, and even black, tourmaline gets its name from the Singhalese phrase “tura mali,” which means, “stone mixed with vibrant colors.” It’s believed that no two tourmaline stones have the exact same color and it’s historically revered as a “magic” stone that is capable of protecting whoever wore it. Although it might be a stretch to say tourmaline has supernatural powers, it does have the uncommon and very special ability to generate an electric charge and emit negative ions and far infrared rays. [1]

What are Far Infrared Rays?

Far infrared rays are invisible waves of energy. They’re able to penetrate all layers of the human body and reach the inner-most regions of tissues, muscles and bone. Through this, far infrared rays and negative ions gently soothe, stimulate and detoxify the body and mind. Negative ions are also incredibly important in determining mood. Michael Terman, PhD, of Columbia University in New York, has researched negative ions and reports, “The action of the pounding surf creates negative air ions and we also see it immediately after spring thunderstorms when people report lightened moods.” [2] Additional research has shown that mood disorders may be improved just as well through negative ion generators as antidepressants — but without the negative side effects. Why? Because these ions promote oxygenation to the brain and regeneration of the blood. [3]

The Health Benefits of Tourmaline Gemstone

Tourmaline emits far infrared radiation in the 4-14 micron wavelength. Electromagnetic radiation in the far infrared range is able to boost the immune system and promote detoxification. In fact, far infrared therapy is widely used in Japan by Kikohshi, people who heal by the laying of hands. [4]

Make no mistake, tourmaline is a powerful ally when your body is in need of detoxification. The far infrared rays created by tourmaline actually produce the same resonance in the body that is normally found in water. This form of resonance absorption helps relieve stress, increase alertness, stimulate circulation, and boost the immune system. Here are just a few of the powerful effects from tourmaline.

Helps detoxification

Supports fat loss

Reduces water retention

Improves circulation

Supports the liver and kidneys

Promotes a healthy mood

Helps eliminate toxic metals [5]

Reduces lactic acids and free fatty acids

Does Tourmaline Improve Physical or Sexual Performance?

Many professional athletes have reported great performance improvements after using therapeutic gemstones like tourmaline. Olympic swimming champion, Glen Christiansen, reportedly stated that, “The green tourmaline necklace gives me a lot of strength, and allows me to recover faster from hard workouts.” She also added, “Curiously enough, it gives me more sexual interest and power.” This isn’t the first time it’s been suggested that tourmaline may have affect sexual response. Tourmaline, which favorably influences circulation, has been reported to boost vitality and vigor in both men and women. [6] [7]

Using Tourmaline

Tourmaline emits far infrared rays and produces the best effects when your body is in close proximity. For that reason, tourmaline, and many energy-emitting stones, are commonly incorporated into jewelry. Some people simply keep tourmaline in their home or office so it’s energy can broadcast right into their environment. We’ve included tourmaline in our Detox Foot Pads to support the removal of toxins from the body. Have you used tourmaline before? What results did you experience? Please leave a comment below and share your story with us!

Both oxytocin (OT) and vasopressin (AVP) are known to modulate social behavior, and dysfunction in both systems has been postulated as a potential cause of certain psychiatric disorders that involve social behavioral deficits. In particular, there is growing interest in intranasal OT as a potential treatment for certain psychiatric disorders, and preliminary pre-clinical and clinical studies suggest efficacy in alleviating some of the associated symptoms. However, the vast majority of research participants in these studies have been male, and there is evidence for sexually differentiated effects of nonapeptides in both humans and non-human animals. To date, no study has investigated the effect of intranasal OT on brain function in human males and females within the same paradigm. Previously, in a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind fMRI study, we reported effects of intranasal OT and AVP on behavior and brain activity of human males as they played an interactive social game known as the Prisoner's Dilemma Game. Here, we present findings from an identical study in human females, and compare these with our findings from males. Overall, we find that both behavioral and neural responses to intranasal OT and AVP are highly sexually differentiated. In women, AVP increased conciliatory behavior, and both OT and AVP caused women to treat computer partners more like humans. In men, AVP increased reciprocation of cooperation from both human and computer partners. However, no specific drug effects on behavior were shared between men and women. During cooperative interactions, both OT and AVP increased brain activity in men within areas rich in OT and AVP receptors and in areas playing a key role in reward, social bonding, arousal and memory (e.g., the striatum, basal forebrain, insula, amygdala and hippocampus), whereas OT and AVP either had no effect or in some cases actually decreased brain activity in these regions in women. OT treatment rendered neural responses of males more similar to responses of females in the placebo group and vice versa, raising the prospect of an inverted u-shaped dose response to central OT levels. These findings emphasize the need to fully characterize the effects of intranasal OT and AVP in both males and females and at multiple doses before widespread clinical application will be warranted.

mythology tells us about many Gods and Goddesses. In the Gnostic tradition, we know that the Gods and Goddesses are symbolic, and represent forces and intelligences that operate in nature. All of these myths and stories encode symbolic truths. There truly are Gods and Goddesses, but at the same time, each hero, God, and Goddess represents something inside of us.

Goddess, Divine Mother Nature

In the Greek mysteries, Gaia or Gaea is a name of the Divine Mother. Gaia is Mother Nature, or the planet Earth. This symbol has a deep spiritual significance, with many levels of meaning. Gaia does not merely represent the literal, physical planet. Gaia represents forces of nature: laws and intelligences that function on every level of the cosmos.

Gaia or Gaea, the Divine Mother Goddess

For those of us who have a serious interest in spiritual development, this symbol holds particular importance, because Gaia is the one who aids us, helps us, guides us, and provides us with everything that we need in order to achieve our goal of spiritual development. Gaia is our Divine Mother.

Unfortunately, humanity has forgotten its Mother. We in this so-called modern age have the point of view that we are self-originated. We have this characteristic now in our culture that we feel that we are “above nature,” beyond nature. We live our daily lives as though we do not need nature. Somehow we have come to this point of our history, of our civilization, where we trample nature. In fact, we tend to avoid it.

When we study our day-to-day existence, we can see that humankind on this planet has steadily been distancing itself from its Mother. When we see our so-called advanced civilization, with our so-called advanced technology, the further we go, the more we supposedly increase our advancement, we are also increasing our distance from our Mother.

Nowadays, it is rare for us to touch the earth, to touch the dirt, to be conscious of the air that we breathe. Nowadays, we are surrounded at all times by synthetic things. We never touch nature. What we wear, what we clothe ourselves with, what we sit on—everything is manufactured in factories. When do we touch the earth, the soil, the plants, the grass?

All across this planet, in every country, increasingly humanity no longer can survive in nature as we once did. Nowadays, in order for what we call a human being to exist, they cannot farm, cannot nourish the earth, cannot raise animals, and live. Now, it is increasingly impossible to support oneself in nature. Society and the increasing complications of life are making it impossible to survive. Nowadays, for a human being to support themselves and their family, they have to leave nature and live in the city. That is why we see across the entire planet that the cities expanding, and the expanses of nature emptying of people. The smaller towns, the rural areas, the populations are steadily emptying, dying. In the cities, the populations are going up. In the cities, every surface being covered with concrete and metal and glass—things that are hard, synthetic, manufactured. We do not touch the earth. People in cities even become afraid of stepping on dirt or sitting on grass, and fear the water of lakes and rivers and oceans.

We clothe ourselves with synthetic things. We always ride in cars and spend our time in shopping malls and offices with nothing living around us, surrounded by dead things, clothed with dead things. Our homes are filled with dead things—plastics and metals, synthetic chemicals. We think this is progress; we think this is normal, but the consequences of it are becoming visible everywhere.

Gaia, the Mother Goddess, represents the forces of nature that give rise to all life. Everything that is alive comes from Her. In the ancient Orphic hymns, we find a beautiful hymn, written to Gaia. This hymn is about 2300 years old.

Gaia represents nature—not a person, but nature as a whole. So you see, nature is an intelligence. Nature is not stupid. Nature is extremely complicated, and very beautiful and terrifying. Nature is a force that is far beyond our comprehension. As proud as we are of our civilization and our accomplishments, we scarcely understand nature. We don’t even understand the nature of our bodies. We barely understand what it means to be alive.

The very first section of that scripture says that Gaia is the source of men and Gods. That is because everything living, on every level of nature, comes from the Divine Mother, without exception—even the Gods. Every living creature, from the smallest particle, to the biggest universe, is all merely a part of her body. This is part of what we need to grasp: the incredible complexity of the Divine Mother.

We talk about Gaia as the planet Earth, and this is true and relevant. But Gaia is also Prakriti, which is the womb of space. It is existence itself. The Divine Mother is matter, energy. In fact, her name in Latin is Mater, which is where we get the word matter. The most ancient word in almost every language is also the first word that we say when we are children: Ma. In languages around the world, children call their mother Ma or Ama. This is Mater, Mother, Mary, Maria, Ma. In the Asian cultures, Hinduism, and India, and China, and Tibet, Ma is Amma. So this word is universal.

The mother is the presence of this divine creative force in all things. Just as we have a physical, humanoid mother, the planet is our mother; the solar system is our mother; this galaxy is our mother; the universe is our mother. The Mother, the Cosmic Mother, has many levels. Moreover, and probably most importantly, we have our own individual Divine Mother. Within us is a confluence of forces in nature, a condensation of the Cosmic Mother, related to our specific ray. In other words, our Innermost Being as Goddess. She is our Mother, our own Gaia. She is the one who, from lifetime, to lifetime, to lifetime, to lifetime, for uncountable ages, has given us life—not only in this humanoid form, but in every form we have had. We have a Divine Mother who is the same for eternity. Yet, who among us remembers her face? Knows her name? Has smelled her scent? Has heard her laugh? Heard her cry? We all have, but we have forgotten, because we have our Consciousness asleep.

Our own individual Divine Mother is a particularized aspect of the Cosmic Mother, in the same way that our Ray, our Innermost Being, is a particularized aspect of the Cosmic Being. The drop of water is but part of the ocean. In the same way, our Being, our Divine Mother, is a portion of the universal aspect. There is a relationship. There is unity and multiplicity. There is identity, and there is the communal aspect. We need to understand these distinctions, so we don’t get confused.

Dimensions of Nature

Ages ago, when life particularized itself into this planet we call Earth, Gaia, the Divine Mother, organized nature in her womb, and this planet was born. This planet is also a Divine Mother, born from its own Mother. On this planet Earth, we find abundant life, hugely complex, far beyond our comprehension, with many, many levels of life—not only physical levels, but multi-dimensional levels. All of that existence is a vast system that is highly organized. It has a specific purpose and goal, about which we have no idea. We have come to the stage of our civilization where we think nature exists just to please us, that nature is just our sandbox, here for us to use or destroy as we will. Again, the evidence for this is everywhere. But as a fact, nature has a purpose, it has a function. It is not just a random accident in nature. The planet has a purpose, a function, and so does every creature on it. Everything is organized, but beyond our vision, beyond our sight.

The physical aspect of the Earth is only one aspect. What we see in the physical aspect is the third dimension. The physical aspect is the newest part. The physical planet, that which exists in the third dimension, has not been here very long relative to cosmic time. It is relatively new. That is millions of years to you and me, which seems like a long time, but in the time scale of the Divine Mother, it is not much.

dimensions on the Tree of Life

Previous to the planet being in the third dimension, it was in the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, and beyond, successively. When we study the Tree of Life, the Kabbalah, we see that the Sephiroth descend in a scale of increasing density. Those Sephiroth represent how energy descends and crystallizes into matter, and gradually becomes denser. So as the energy descends from the womb of the Divine Mother, it becomes more and more dense, and more and more complex.

In past ages, this Earth was only in the fifth dimension, it was not physical yet. Then it moved into the fourth dimension (ethereal), which is called Eden. From Eden, it crystallized into the physical world. This is over unthinkable measures of time—measures of time that we can scarcely comprehend.

That crystallization of matter and energy all served as a vehicle to channel forces. You see, when we study how energy descends down the Tree of Life, down through multi-dimensionality, we see that the purpose is so that the descending ray of Consciousness can know itself. That ray descends into greater degrees of complexity in order to manage more and more complicated laws, in order to gain wisdom. So, having reached that limit, it returns back upwards wiser, developed, having accomplished something.

The purpose of that descent and ascent is for that primordial, virginal spark of Consciousness, which emerges from the Ain Soph—the Absolute, or the Prakriti—to descend into nature to perfect itself, and to become an angel, to become a God. This means that that ray of light descends from above into the abyss, is born as a God, and rises back up. This is the universal cosmic drama in every religion. This is the story of Christmas, of Christ, Baldur, Odin, Heracles, Apollo. All the great Gods, in all their unique ways, represent this myth: how a spark of Consciousness descends into a cell, into an embryo, to be born, to die, to resurrect, to ascend and become another sun, another star, another universe, according to its level.

So what we see then, in nature, are waves and waves of sparks of light emerging out of the Absolute, like the waves of a great ocean. Those waves are coming out of the womb of the Divine Mother. They are waves of life, spontaneously bursting forth from Gaia’s cosmic body. Those life sparks first crystallize into physical matter to emerge as minerals.

Scientists have not yet admitted that there is life away from this planet, but they have admitted minerals. They have not yet brought together the different avenues of their modern science: the quantum and the physical. Physical scientists, or astrophysicists who study extraterrestrial planets and cosmic bodies, readily admit that there is an abundance of mineral life in the universe, that in fact, the universe teems with it—minerals, all types of elements, everywhere. But those materialistic physicists or scientists have not yet understood what quantum physics reveals, and what spiritual physicists have been saying for centuries, which is that every particle is alive. Every particle has life. Every existing thing has matter, energy, and Consciousness—everything, in its level.

Kingdoms of Nature

All minerals throughout space have inside them a spark of living substance. It is not the same substance as a plant, or an animal, or a human being, but it is nonetheless a fire that gives that element energy, power. That energy inside any element is its life force; it is Consciousness—in every single particle.

planet earth

Now, if we look at our planet, to us it seems quite big, a huge mass, and by far most of it is minerals. Only a very thin skin on its surface has other kinds of life. All of those minerals are life forms bursting out of the Cosmic Mother, that are developing in hierarchies or organized patterns.

Now grasp this: the physical element is just a shell. Iron, sulfur, any kind of rock, any kind of crystal, gold, silver, all the metals, are just physical shells through which Consciousness enters and leaves, just like us. Our bodies are born and die. Minerals are born and die, but in a different time scale from us—very different.

Minerals are alive. They host the Consciousness of very new souls: they are extremely simple, without mind as we think of mind. In ancient times, a long time ago, when humanity was not so dense, we could see them. We called them dwarves, gnomes, pygmies, leprechauns—different names for these little creatures that would inhabit certain types of elements.

Little by little, over many, many ages, and many, many stages of development, those souls learn. They grow; they develop; they advance—I am not referring to the body, the material element, but the soul, the Consciousness, the energy that is in that body. Little by little, they advance. That is why there are hierarchies in metals.

Many elements we have already begun to map in science, from very simple elements to very heavy elements, represent the range by which those sparks of Consciousness are elevating themselves and their intelligence. The most valuable metals—in terms of nature’s value—are the ones that are the most advanced. A diamond, for example, is relatively rare, but is an advanced mineral. Gold, as well. Silver. There are different metals, different elements, that represent an ascension through the hierarchies of that level of nature. They have power, they have energy, and that is why we harvest them and use them—because of the energy that is inside of them. Certain elements have more energy than others. We know this. In fact, we can’t live without them. We drink water, we eat food, to get those minerals, the elements, in our bodies. This is the basis of life. This is why the minerals, the earth, is called the body of the Mother. The milk that nourishes us comes from that—the Mother’s milk. It is the oceans. It is the gases. It is all the elements in nature that sustain our very existence. All of those elements, all of those atoms, are alive. They are living. Yet we treat them as though they are nothing. This is a demonstration of our profound ignorance. You see, our ancient ancestors, and some modern natives, still remember the Earth is sacred; the Earth is our Mother; the Earth should be treated with respect. We do not have the right to rape our Mother. Yet we do it.

All of us have witnessed what happened in the Gulf of Mexico: a terrible crime against the planet. What is the extraction of oil? It is sucking the life blood out of the planet. That blood is oil. We have punctured a hole in the body of the earth, and the earth is bleeding. Why have we done that? We like to blame the big corporations and governments for it, but the only reason they are doing it is because we want to drive our cars, we want to buy more plastic, and we want the things that the oil makes; even our clothes depend on oil production. So, the rape and pollution of the Earth is our fault. The companies and governments are only doing it because we are paying them to do it. We, as a humanity, are raping the earth. Not “them,” not “those other people”; it is us. We need to take that seriously and recognize the facts of it.

All the minerals on the planet contain the essence of the Divine Mother, the life force. In that life force we see the evolution of conscious sparks that are moving through the kingdoms of all the different types of minerals. When any essence, a Consciousness, that spark of intelligence, gains enough knowledge in that kingdom, it is granted the right to graduate, to be initiated into a new kingdom: the plant kingdom.

What emerges out of the soil? A superior life, a more complex life, a life that needs that soil, the minerals, to sustain itself, but it goes on to build something even greater. Plants are superior to minerals, but depend on minerals. The spiritual essence in a plant is more evolved than the one in a mineral.

There are not as many plants as there are minerals. There are not as many souls that are advanced into that level. But there are a lot of plants, and forms of life that belong to the plant kingdom.

Plants are physical bodies that house sparks of Consciousness that are more advanced than minerals. Those sparks of Consciousness use their physical bodies in plants to take the minerals and transform them in their bodies. You see, plants take from the mineral kingdom—from the water, from the air, from the soil—and transform them. They create new life, beautiful life.

Subsequently, the souls of plants who develop themselves graduate into the animal kingdom. There are even fewer animals than there are plants. The animals depend on the plants to live. There are many levels of animals; many kingdoms, many hierarchies within that animal kingdom.

kingdoms of nature

So, do you see a vast triangle growing here? The foundation is all the minerals. The next level up, even smaller, is the plants. The next level, even smaller, are the animals. But these are all interdependent. They need each other. They sustain each other. They cannot live without the other. Minerals are transformed by the plants, to create their bodies. The plants are transformed by the animals, to create their bodies. We see a vast, beautiful cycle that is perfectly balanced—well, at least it used to be. Because then, those animal souls who over millions of years evolved through animal bodies and reached the height of the animal kingdom graduate into the humanoid kingdom. That is us.

We are merely animals who have entered a new level, in which we can develop ourselves further. The problem is that we are ignorant of it, and instead are becoming worse than animals. Instead of advancing, we are degenerating, and along the way we are destroying everything around us.

The harmony, the interdependence, the beautiful relationship between the three lower kingdoms, is now gone. We in the humanoid kingdom do not respect our younger brothers and sisters. Because of our enslavement to desire and our profound ignorance about the effects of our actions, we destroy them. We trample them. We torture them. We abuse them. We rape them. We are exterminating them. We are polluting them. We are ending life, everywhere on the planet. In every conceivable area of our existence on this planet, we are destroying life. Nowhere are we improving it, not on any level. I wish that was untrue, truly. I wish I could say, “I found one place where we are doing something good to help nature.” But I do not see it. I hope somebody will find one and can tell me, because I do not see it.

We are exterminating the animals, killing the oceans, and spreading our disease into every corner of the world. We are polluting every level of the lower kingdoms. We are modifying genetically all the animals, or exterminating them. Many are gone already. Many more are on the edge of disappearing. Those that remain have become monsters.

In the plant kingdom is the same story. Nowadays, in many countries, a farmer cannot grow whatever he wants. He has to get permission from a corporation or a government. Nowadays, none of us can sustain ourselves by farming, because we have created a situation within which we cannot. It is impossible. We would die. We would starve.

We are raping and destroying the mineral kingdom. All of that erosion, the changes of the land, the hurricanes, the tornados, the tsunamis, the earthquakes—all of that is a result of what we are doing to the Earth. Scientists have not admitted it yet. They have not seen it yet. They will.

Everything that is happening on this planet is interdependent. No element is isolated from another. The humanoid needs the three lower kingdoms. Moreover, the humanoid should be guiding them. When we study in the ancient scriptures, we always hear that Adam was created by Iod-Havah and given the command to name and organize the animals and plants, to protect them, to guide them, to help them, because Adam represents, in that context, the most advanced level of mechanical nature—the human organism. There is no more sophisticated physical body on the planet. There is also no more misunderstood body.

The Human Body

The physical organism that each one of you is sitting in right now is the most fantastical technological advancement in the history of this planet. It isn’t the iPad. It’s your body.

nervous system

The physical body is an incredible machine. Yet, it is not you. That which is "you" is your soul, your Essence, which has been evolving up through these kingdoms for millennia. Every one of us was an animal. Every one of us was a plant. Every one of us was a mineral. And you ask, “How come I can’t remember?” You cannot even remember your dreams last night. You cannot even remember what you were doing last week, or where you were last month. You cannot remember your childhood. How can you remember what happened before that? You can remember if you awaken your Consciousness, if you work with the techniques to restore those memories—because the memories are there in your soul. This is why the Buddha Shakyamuni related the Jātaka Tales—hundreds of stories about his previous existences, as animals, as plants. And he was not the only one to relate those stories. It didn’t only happen to him. It happens to every soul. It is how nature functions. This is a well-known fact in many traditions, called Transmigration, along with other names.

wheel-of-samsara

Nonetheless, essences evolve up to the humanoid kingdom and receive a body like ours. But the soul, the mind, is still an animal. We receive the humanoid body in order to develop ourselves into human beings, but unfortunately we have maintained the animal mind. So all those instinctive animal behaviors, desires, and automatic mechanical reactions, we just have made them stronger. We have an intellect, true. But the vast majority of the rest of what constitutes our identity is animal: anger, lust, desire, envy, jealousy, pride, greed, gluttony, to kill or be killed. That defines us. We would like to say it is something else, but look at our civilization. What is running it? It is to compete, to conquer, to kill the other guy before he kills me. We take that approach in every way of life: in business, in religion. Those are not human values. Those are animal values.

Nonetheless, the humanoid body is the most advanced machine on the planet. It has capacities about which we have scarcely dreamed. And that is because, as we look at these kingdoms, we see that in each level, each of those bodies of minerals is a womb within which a soul has emerged to become a plant. The plant bodies are a womb within which souls emerge to become animals. Those animal bodies are likewise a womb of a Cosmic Mother, within which souls perfect themselves in order to advance into humanoid bodies. Therefore, this is why Samael Aun Weor stated, “Humanity is a womb.” But what will come from that womb? Humanity, all these physical bodies, are shells within which something is growing. But what is growing in us? Are we behaving like angels? Are we managing this planet the way angels would manage it? The way Masters or Gods would manage it? Are we managing this planet the way the Cosmic Mother would have us manage it? Do the angels, do the Gods, live their moment to moment existence in order to satisfy their desires? In order to feed their lust and their greed and their envy? In order to make others afraid? In order to dominate? In order to conquer? In order to steal? In order to be intoxicated or drunk? Do the angels behave in those ways? Animals do, but not real human beings.

A real human being is a Master. A real human being is one who has mastered the human organism, has conquered it for the benefit of everyone, not just himself. A master is an angel, a Buddha. A Buddha is one who is awake, has the Consciousness awake, knows their Innermost, knows their Divine Mother, knows the laws of nature, and knows how to command them. This is what a Master is.

moses parting the red sea

A Master does not seek to feed their pride, to become a big shot, to be famous, to be recognized, to get money, to get power. This is not what a Master wants. A Master wants to guide others and help them to come where he is, to have serenity and peace, to be in harmony with the laws of nature, to advance the whole, to bring his family to the light.

You see, all these kingdoms are our brothers and sisters. They are our family. They are our mothers and fathers, our children. But we treat the plants like they are not even alive. We treat the animals as if they do not feel anything, as if they are just a carcass that walks. We do not understand that an animal, a plant, and a mineral have emotions, Consciousness. They perceive. They feel. They think, in their level. They are alive. And the distance between us and them is not as great as we arrogantly believe.

So you see, the purpose of all of this, this hugely complex and sophisticated life that is flowing on this planet in this moment, all of it is flowing upwards into the humanoid kingdom, into us. We depend upon the minerals, the plants and the animals. Without them, we would perish. The question is: What do we do with those energies and forces? What are we using them for? To dominate our neighbors? To kill each other?

Everyone loves to praise this civilization, but what is it built on? Everyone loves to praise the United States and claim the United States it the greatest country in the history of the world. But no one realizes the United States was built upon the deaths of millions of natives and on the backs of slavery. No one wants to recognize that the modern countries throughout the world are built upon exploitation and corruption. Anyone who has worked a retail job or a minimum wage job knows the truth of it. That is not life. To work and have nothing is not life. It is slavery.

The Purpose of Living

This whole planet, and all the forms of life on it, is this great pyramid of living things, but we are not the pinnacle. The humanoid organism is only a step. I am sorry to shatter your illusions about humans being the greatest thing in the world. They are not. The humanoid organism is a vessel. That is all it is. It is a vessel. You will not have it long. You might have it for a few more days. You might have it for a few more months or years. No one knows how long they have to live.

The humanoid organism is a vessel that channels and transforms forces, in the same way that every other body receives, transforms, and transmits energy. The minerals do that. The plants do that. The animals do that. The humanoid organism is no different. But we scarcely tap its true potential to transform energy. That is because our mind is a complete mess. Psychologically, we are a disaster. To harness the full power of the humanoid organism, we have to use it wisely, but with the mind we have, we do not use it wisely. Instead, we abuse it until it dies, and the result is that our soul, inhabiting that body, receives the consequences of that abuse.

This is why, not long ago, a great meeting was held in the internal worlds amongst those divinities that are responsible for guiding humanity, and all the evidence was placed on the table. The judgment was reached that this humanity has failed. So, the times of the end are upon us. This is a simple truth that was predicted in every religion in the world. We are in the beginning of that ending, because this humanity has failed.

Just as in the mineral kingdom, a small number of those seed embryos of Consciousness have enough strength and wisdom to graduate and become plants, throughout the vast plant kingdom only a small number have the strength and wisdom to graduate into the animal kingdom. Even fewer in the animal kingdom have the strength and wisdom and development to emerge out of being animals and become humanoids, or intellectual animals. But now, in this womb, very few have the strength and the wisdom to stop being animals and become angels, true masters. Very few.

Most of the seeds in humanity are already lost—they are too corrupted, too degenerated. So nature, the Divine Mother, in her great love for all living things, will reabsorb them by means of one her faces, which is Kali Ma, Durga, Persephone, Hecate, the Divine Mother Death, who is in charge of the infernal worlds, what we call hell. She will take all of those fallen, failed seeds, and recycle them, purging them of all their impurities so that one day they can try again, many thousands of years from now, when they have become pure again. That is what hell is: nature’s recycling of energy. This whole planet is already sinking into it.

You see, when those forces descend down the Tree of Life, things become more complicated. At the very heights, at the Absolute, at the Ain Soph, at Kether, life is very simple. It is one, united. It is God. Level by level, down the Sephiroth, life becomes more complex. Three laws become six laws, twelve laws, all the way down until we get to the physical world, which should have forty-eight laws modifying existence in the physical world. You can still feel that simplicity of life (of 48 laws) if you get out of the city. If you go to the country, things feel nicer, simpler, not as complicated. But when you come to the city, it is very complex, very confusing, very heavy, very dense. And that is because all of the people with their complicated minds reflect the laws that manage them, and the minds of humanoids all reside in hell, because our minds are filled with anger, lust, greed, gluttony, and more. These are all complicated, mechanical forces that reverbaerate in our psychological environment, and the more we fall victim to them, the more we strengthen them, thereby making life even more complicated. And since we are all gathering in the cities and infecting each other more and more, life is sinking more and more. The laws are sinking lower, below Malkuth, into the abyss, where every level of hell gets worse—more and more dense, more and more complicated—because all those pressures are there to purify the souls, to purge them.

laws of nature

So everything that we think in our world is so good and wonderful and admirable is actually sinking and will be destroyed by nature, purged. Nothing will remain. Nothing.

Out of this huge womb of humanity, a few seeds will be given the granted right to be initiated to a new level of life. Not every seed. It is not a right that is given to every soul automatically, because to go to this next level, one has to escape mechanical nature. One moves into conscious nature, to truly become Adam, a man made into the image of God, who can command the plants and the animals and the minerals, who can create life, who can organize life, who can help others, that is a master, that is Adam, that is a real human being. That is a process by which one reaches perfection, stage by stage. It is not easy.

The scientists know we only use a small fraction of what the body actually has inside of it. Scientists differ in their estimates. The brain itself, we only use three or five percent of it. Some say ten percent, but I think it is less, given the behaviors that we can observe. What about all our glands? There are many things in our bodies that we ignore, many powers, many abilities. We have heard stories that some people have learned how to use them, because you can learn how to use them.

The Bodies of the Soul

Our physical body, in Kabbalah, is called Malkuth. This means “the Kingdom.” We have a physical body according to the kingdom that we belong to. All of us have humanoid bodies. We are in the humanoid kingdom. Our own Malkuth is humanoid, not human yet. This body has its physiology. It has a spinal column. It has three nervous systems. It has a very sophisticated and beautiful arrangement of organs and systems that receive energy, transform energy, and transmit it. But we have no control over it. Everything within us is happening automatically, mechanically, without any awareness or intervention on our part. We just want to eat and drink, and sleep, and have sex, but we do not know why.

But the physical body is only one aspect of what makes a living entity. The physical body exists because it has a vital aspect, what we call the vital body, the body energy. It can be called the ethereal body, or the body of Chi, or Prana. This is the body that the acupuncturists work on, or people who work with Chi kung. They work with this body. It is a body of energy that empowers the physical body. These two cannot be separated in terms of existence. The physical body and the vital body are really one with two parts. And what is interesting here: I told you before that life was descending through dimensions, the vital body is in the fourth dimension. It is not here in the third dimension, directly. It is multi-dimensional, in the sense that this energy is what is empowering our physical body. If you have ever felt your arm or leg fall asleep, you are sensing a separating between the two aspects: vital and physical. When an amputee has an arm or leg removed, and they still feel their arm or leg, they are feeling the vital body, which is still there.

The vital body is in the fourth dimension, what we call Eden. This is where all our energy and forces are. Superior to that, in the fifth dimension, we have an Astral body and a Mental body, related with Hod and Netzach on the Tree of Life. The emotional body, the Astral body, is related to our emotions and feelings. It is related to the heart. The Mental body is the body of though, related with the brain, the mind.

Above this there is what is called a Causal body, the body of willpower, the body of Consciousness, conscious will. Unfortunately, none of us have these yet in their full form. We have the shadows of them, the embryos of them.

Throughout the process of our evolution through the three lower kingdoms, nature was elaborating these internal bodies for us. Our soul, our essence, our spark of Consciousness, was an extraction from the Sephiroth of Tiphereth. It is conscious will, but simple. That spark, when it first emerges into nature, is given lunar Mental body, Astral body, vital body, and physical bodies. These are gifts from nature. The Divine Mother says, “Here are the vessels you need, the vehicles you need. This is your mind, your heart, your body.” We call them protoplasmic, because they are a modification of forces in nature that are given to us. They do not belong to us.

Over the course of millions of years, that essence inhabits its protoplasmic bodies and takes physical bodies, and gradually evolves as a mineral, as a plant, as an animal, until eventually it gains the right to enter the humanoid kingdom. That humanoid, you and me, enters into a humanoid physical body with these ancient protoplasmic bodies, the gifts of nature that carry all of our memories, all of our history, all of our knowledge in them. Well, at least that is how it would be if we were an innocent humanity, the way we were in the Garden of Eden, when we first emerged into humanoid bodies. But we are not an innocent humanity anymore. We discovered desire. We became entranced with power, with lust. And over the course of thousands of years, we created the ego and infected these protoplasmic bodies with all of our karma.

You see, these protoplasmic bodies are vessels for our soul. But these bodies are our mind. What we think, the thoughts we feel, are flowing from our protoplasmic lunar Mental body. The emotions, the sensations in our heart that we feel, are flowing from our protoplasmic lunar Astral body. The energies in our body, the instincts, the drives that we feel are flowing from our lunar vital body into our lunar physical body. All of that driven by all those behaviors, habits, and desires that we developed through the three lower kingdoms. So we are animals inside of a fancy car, driving it around like mad.

A Master is one who has conquered all of that; conquered it and learned how to transform into something different. The key is inside the body. Every body has a spinal column. The physical body has a spinal column. The vital body has it. The Astral body has it. The Mental body has it. The Causal body. You see, all these bodies are reflections of one another throughout different dimensions. Nature works in patterns.

The Spinal Column and Kundalini

The spine is where everything in us is organized. This is our Tree of Life. This is our Tree of Knowledge. It is the spine. Our nervous systems, our brain, our ability to perceive, to see, to touch, to walk, to run, to eat, to do everything, flows in and out of the spine. You cannot be alive without a spine; you cannot function. It is the central pillar of our temple. But we do not really understand what it is, what it can do, what is hidden inside of it.

spinal column and kundalini

The Divine Mother creates these bodies for us, gives us these vessels. Then we receive instructions on how to use them. Those instructions are encoded in our religions. Those instructions are in our Consciousness if we know how to retrieve them. You do not have to get them out of a book. You can get them directly from your Divine Mother.

What we see when we examine those kingdoms is that the mineral and the plant kingdoms use all the energy in themselves in a very balanced way, in a very efficient way, in order to advance their development. The animal kingdom, also, in its way, following its course of development, uses its energies according to the laws that apply to the animal kingdom.

But there is a great shift that happens in that transition between these kingdoms. In the mineral kingdom, there is always an exchange of forces—positive and negative. Minerals combine and recombine to create new compounds, new elements. And we see that in all the different ways that we measure forces in the minerals—electricity and magnetism, acidity, and those types of forces that always have a positive and negative, a polarity. We see the same in the plant kingdom. In the plant kingdom, we see the emergence of sexuality on many levels, from asexual up to sexual levels. In the plant kingdom we see that also, but it is sexual, to a certain degree.

So we see that throughout these kingdoms, sexuality that begins with very simple plus and minus, and advances through more and more sophisticated forms of combinations, until we reach the humanoid kingdom.

In the humanoid kingdom on this planet, we have forgotten the cosmic law. The animal kingdom is given the law of instinct, and they follow the instructions of their own Innermost by following that instinct. They only use their sexual forces according to instinct, which in most cases is in spring. They only use it to procreate a child, that is it. They do not use it every day for fun.

But then when those souls graduate into the humanoid kingdom, they are given new laws. To become a humanoid, those forces have to be managed and transformed. These are laws related with Chastity. The science of those laws is called Tantra or Alchemy. It the method by which a humanoid organism takes all the energies and forces in the sexual organs, transforms them, and raises them up the sexual column of the spine in order to nourish the brain and the endocrine system, in order to fully develop the brain.

This is the most ancient, beautiful secret, that was once called the Ark in the Judeo-Christian traditions. The Ark is actually the Aron Kadosh, “the sacred chest.” That Ark is Tantra, or Alchemy. It is the science of taking those forces and combining a man and a woman, to combine those forces, to restrain them, to transform them, and to send them up the spine.

What is that energy? Why is that needed? That energy is the Divine Mother. In every level of life, in every kingdom, she creates through sex. The great power of the Divine Mother is her womb. That is what makes her who she is, from the cosmic level to the atomic level. The power of the mother is her ability to make a child, to create life.

But the Cosmic Mother cannot do that in us as long as we remain an animal. If we remain as an animal, she can only create animals through us. That is why in the past a soul who worked seriously in spiritual development was given the clue. Once you had awakened Consciousness, once you had mastered a certain degree of any spiritual tradition, you were given the clue, the secret knowledge, the highest Tantra: sexual transmutation, scientific Chastity. It is the first commandment—to not fornicate, but to take those forces, use them, but under divine will, not animal will, to take those energies inside and give them to the Divine Mother. With that, she can create something beyond an animal.

If you want to be born again, we have to take the spirit and the water. That spirit is the Daemon, spirit in Greek. That spirit is creative power of the Divine Mother. The water is sexual, the mayim in Hebrew , the waters of Genesis, creation. Those waters are sexual.

The Divine Mother creates minerals through their sexual forces. She creates plants through their sexual forces. She creates animals through their sexual energy. She creates more intellectual animals like us through our animal sexuality. But how is she going to create an angel? How is she going to create a master, a Buddha? Through lust? Obviously not. How will a God come from lust, anger, or pride?

If our tradition of lust and fornication is so great, then why are we in such a mess? We have had millions of years of lust and envy. We have not created any angels, and the few that have emerged, emerged because they had the secret knowledge. They conquered themselves, purged themselves of all of that filth.

The sexual energy is the Divine Mother herself. It is her power, and we call it Kundalini. We call it the Divine Mother Kundalini, Devi Kundalini, the Goddess Kundalini. Some people talk about it just like it is any energy in nature. It is not. It is not a mechanical energy. You cannot turn it off and on like a switch. You cannot trick it. There are a lot of people out there who think that if you go to a certain ashram and you pay a certain amount of money, you can awaken your Kundalini in two weeks. This is snake oil: lies and deceit. You cannot trick the Divine Mother. She has known you for millions of years. She knows your ways. She will only give you what you deserve—nothing more, nothing less.

For her to be born in your spine is for her to give you her power. Can you imagine that? Do you sincerely believe you deserve to handle the power of the Divine Mother? Ask yourself: Do you deserve it? What would you do with power? If you were given divine power with your mind as it is now, what would your mind do with it? Feed its lust? Feed its pride? Make itself out into a big shot? Try to be famous? Try to get power in the world? Try to get money? Yes. That is exactly what we would do with it.

Why would the Divine Mother give us that power when we have proven that we are not interested in helping the planet, helping her, helping our brothers and sisters in the other kingdoms? We want to kill them all; we want to conquer them; we want to consume everything to feed our desires. We do not care about anything but our desire, so why would she give us that power?

Yet, there are thousands of books and groups and schools who teach that you can awaken your Kundalini and get all this power being just the way you are. Well, I’ll tell you a secret that they want to hide from you: Yes, you can get power from what they teach you to do, and it is related to Kundalini, but it is inverted. It is not divine power. Remember all the forces of nature are polarized—polarized energies. So just the same way that she can rise up the spine, she can flow down it.

That downward flowing energy is the tail of the demon. That is why demons are depicted with tails. The tail represents is their animal power, active and enflamed by lust, pride, envy, etc. You can have that kind of power easily, very easy. It is as simple as reading a couple of books, learning a couple of techniques, and you can instantly start working with those powers, because all of us are that close to the edge of becoming fully-fledged, awakened demons, because of our ego, because of desire, because of pride and lust.

But to go upwards is not easy—it is very difficult. Every single step along the spinal column is accompanied by tests, ordeals. We have to prove ourselves; we have to conquer ourselves. Nothing heavenly is given for free. If something comes easily, it is because it is not worth anything. What is of value is expensive; that is, to earn the status an Angel, one has to pay the price, and that price is the elimination of everything within us that is contrary to the angelic state.

The positive, upward flowing Kundalini must pass through each vertebra of the spine. Every single vertebra of our spinal column represents tests, psychological tests: tests of desire, tests of pride, tests of lust and fear and envy and gluttony and greed and all the elements we have within. When we pass a test, we can receive that force. Step by step, we can raise the thirty-three degrees. You have heard about the thirty-three years of the life of Jesus, the thirty-three degrees of the Freemasons. Those are symbols of the steps we have to walk up the spine, taking that energy back to God, purifying ourselves of all of our animal elements.

Raising the Kundalini is a sexual process, wherein one is born again. What is born is the soul. Everything that is born is born of sex. Every living thing is born of sex.

To enter that process of birth, you have to be with a spouse. A single person cannot do this, because a single person cannot have a child. A single person cannot engender a child, or give birth to a child. It takes a couple. As above, so below. The angel is born of Chastity, Tantra. This is why in the ancient traditions, the most secret, holy symbol of every religion is a couple united in sexual union, even in Christianity and Judaism—which they deny now, but the evidence is there in the scriptures; you can learn about it in the Gnostic websites. The most ancient symbol that was hidden in the Holy of Holies of the Temple of Solomon was two angels united in a sexual embrace. The Jews know this. They keep quiet. When the Romans saw it they destroyed the temple, because they thought it was depraved. They saw it the way their minds were, as if it was degenerated like their minds. They did not see that it was something holy and pure.

That sexual symbol encodes the secret that a male and female working in sexual cooperation and scientific Chastity unite forces, restrain them, transform them, and the Divine Mother takes them and creates life inside. That which is physical is physical; that which is spiritual is spiritual. If we take our sexual energy and make it spiritual, it gives birth spiritually. It creates the soul.

Initiation and Spiritual Growth

What happens then, by passing the ordeals, by satisfying the tests that the Divine Mother provides to us, little by little we raise the force of the Kundalini in the spinal column. We awaken the chakras along the spinal column. We awaken all the hidden powers of a real human being. In other words, we begin to return to Eden, to restore our place where we fell from.

There is a spine in each body. There is a spine in the physical body. When that energy reaches the top, we receive an initiation; we graduate into a new level. It is the First Initiation of Major Mysteries, the Kundalini or the serpent of the physical body. In that moment, a connection is made in our soul, in our Spirit, and our Innermost, our Being inside, becomes a Master. You see, our Innermost, our Being, has been working with our Divine Mother throughout all those millennia to raise that conscious spark through all those kingdoms, finally reaches the humanoid kingdom, and that human soul, that person in the humanoid body finally takes advantage of that energy and achieves something. That Innermost becomes a Master—not the human person, not the physical body, not the soul—the Innermost becomes a Master, our Master, inside. The Innermost becomes a Master. This is our Atman, our Chesed, our Inner Buddha.

But that is only the beginning. Then the same process has to happen in the vital body. Those energies have to be raised up the spinal column of the vital body, and thirty-three degrees of tests and ordeals have to be passed. And again with the Astral body; and again with the Mental body; and again with the Causal body. Five serpents. Have you ever seen a Buddha with five serpents over his head? That is the meaning.

There are five serpents related with these five bodies. There are more serpents than that, but for our discussion today we are talking about just five Serpents of Fire, related with five Initiations of Major Mysteries. The reason is the person who has managed to raise those energies of the Divine Mother within themselves, and reach the Fifth Initiation of Major Mysteries, becomes a Master proper, an actual Master—not a complete Master, but a Master that is beginning—because that person has raised the forces of the Divine Mother to illuminate their physical body, to illuminate their energy, to illuminate their heart, to illuminate their mind, and to enforce and sustain their conscious will. This person has the Divine Mother inside. This person is a child of the Divine Mother, finally. This person, in the internal worlds, is a Buddha, and angel, really, but is not done, because the ego is still alive.

You see, this whole process is hard. There are a lot of challenges, a lot of ordeals, but this is not about eliminating the ego—that comes next. This is only about returning to Eden and creating the soul. In other words, in each of these serpents, we transcend the protoplasmic bodies, especially in the top three: Hod, Netzach, and Tiphereth.

When the serpent of Kundalini is raised in the Astral body, what is really happening is our Divine Mother is creating a new body for us, unless we had one already. She creates a solar Astral body. This is a new Astral body. This, esoterically, and in initiation, is the first appearance of Christ. Christ first appears in us when we create the Christ Astral, the solar Astral body. This is a body of gold. It is a body that is created from scientific Chastity. It is created from the purification of the sexual forces, united with prayer and longing and the wisdom and intelligence of the Divine Mother. This is represented in all of the religions, when Athena has the weapons crafted by Vulcan in the forge to give to Theseus or Perseus. Those weapons represent the solar bodies—the armor, the shield, the helm. These are those solar bodies. This is the chariot of Ezekiel; the Merkabah of the Kabbalists; this is the To Soma Heliakon of the Greeks; the Sahu of the Egyptians. This is the boat of Ra that travels across the lakes of peace. This is the soul. This is an ancient, secret mystery.

Each of these bodies is just a vessel, a vehicle like your physical one, but better, because it is not made from fornication, it is not made from sin. It is made from divine atoms. They are bodies of incredible beauty, splendor, and power. They are acquired for a reason, not for fun and games, not so we can go in the astral plane to investigate the lives of other people, spy on our neighbor, or see if what we suspect about our wife is true. These bodies are needed because in order for us to completely eliminate the ego, we need these weapons—we need the protection, we need the armaments. If we try to go into our own infernal worlds with our protoplasmic bodies—which are infected by ego—we have nothing to defend ourselves with—no defense, no protection—because the protoplasmic bodies are diseased. The solar bodies are perfect—well, on their way to perfection. The solar bodies are perfected in initiations of the Serpents of Light, which come later.

A master is one who has reached the Initiation of Major Mysteries related with the Sephirah Tiphereth, and has received a sword. The sword is symbolic. We have all heard about the flaming sword that guards the way to Eden. The flaming sword of any great God or Angel is the Kundalini. What does the sword represent? Willpower.

Right now, our will as a humanity is in conquering each other, stabbing each other in the back, stealing and lying, feeding our lust. Our will is all about serving our self-will. But the Divine Mother gives a flaming sword to a Master who will serve Her, who will become an exponent of Divine Will. Kundalini is that sword. That is something that is earned. It is not given for free. This is what the Divine Mother wants. This is why we exist. It is to create the soul, and to return to God, and to advance our evolution.

Through the Initiations of Major Mysteries the initiate is transcending the mechanical laws of nature. All of us right now are complete victims of the mechanical laws of nature. We have little or no control over what happens in our lives, in our communities, in our culture. We cannot control ourselves, and we cannot control nature. We think we can, but a little storm comes along and shows us differently, or somebody falls asleep at the controls of a machine and kills a lot of people, or destroys an area of nature from negligence and foolishness. We cannot even control our own nature inside; we are slaves of our animal nature.

A Master commands nature. We have all heard about masters like Krishna and Moses creating miracles, Jesus raising the dead back to life. All the prophets have performed miracles; all the saints, all the Buddhas, could fly through the air, walk on the water, command the flames, call the tempests, split the earth. That is because the power of the Kundalini in the spinal column of each body makes them a priest, a magi, a magician. Magi, or mag, means “priest.”

The triangle of Netzach, Hod and Yesod in Kabbalah is called the Magical Triangle, or the Triangle of the Priesthood, because it is here that the real priest works on behalf of others. The real priest works for the benefit of others, not himself. He does this by exercising his will over the lower spheres; the powers of conscious will are in Tiphereth, in the sixth dimension. Through conscious, divine will he uses the powers of conscious thought through the Mental body in Netzach, in the fifth dimension. Through conscious, divine will he uses the powers of the Astral body—conscious emotion, divine emotion—in Hod. Through conscious, divine will he uses the vital and physical bodies: Yesod and Malkuth. Magic is performed in these spheres. These spheres are where, through conscious will, the Innermost works through His human soul, which is us, to benefit others, to guide the souls.

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Physical activity and exercise is one of the main foundations of health and well-being. Exercise is an essential way which can stimulate our vitality, strength, and natural healing mechanisms of body. Our culture seems to have love-hate relationship with exercise and sports. On one hand, spending on sporting events and sporting products are at it's highest level; on the other hand, rates of obesity and metabolic diseases has been steadily increasing for decades.

When it comes to professional competition, even at college level, we love our athletes to be of elite quality. Young athletes in games like football and basketball are major source of revenue stream for colleges and businesses alike. In 2010, NCAA football grossed total profits of $1.1 billion;[1] March Madness 2013 grossed a total of 1.15 billion in ad revenue alone.[2] These athletes are encouraged and supported in every possible way – as long as they perform.

On the other hand, children in USA are the least active children on the planet. The physical activity report card of 2014,[3] by National Physical Activity Plan found the following trends among children and adolescents:

Grades (A-F) Measure

D- Physical activity: About 42% of 6-11 year olds and only 8% of 12-17 year olds get 60 minutes of physical activity 5 days per week

D Sedentary behavior: Most children in the US have a 2+ hours in front of television or computer for every 1 instance of play/activity.

F Active transportation: less than 13% of children walk or bike to school.

These trends indicate that our culture is more interested in youth athletics for their talents rather than health-care and encouragement. This cultural message seems to give the wrong impression to our youth – who either excel in sports OR may quit physical activity altogether. Stress of performance is so high that many professional athletes use banned performance enhancing drugs. The problem is so deep seated that many name brand athletes have confessed using banned performance enhancing drugs. Besides being illegal these performance enhancing drugs comes with slew of severe side effects. In recent years, there have been dozens of professional athletes (baseball players, Olympians, elite cyclists, etc.) have been embroiled in scandals involving performance enhancing substances (PES). These professionals are a result of unhealthy cultural pressures on athletes.

These wrong messages can also occur in the local or family environment of the athlete as well. A recent study indicates that familial and social pressures for performance may encourage our young athletes to start using performance enhancing substance (PES).[4] These students may take on such behavior for improving self-esteem and social standing. Another survey study found that as many as 5-17% of students athletes in USA use PES's on a state-by-state basis.[5]

Among college athletes, use of PES's is more prevalent among male athletes, who participate in more competitive and aggressive sports.[6] These students were also found to be at a higher risk of cigarette smoking, illicit drug use, drinking and driving, and alcohol abuse disorders.[7]

The Risks of Performance Enhancing Substances:

The United States Anti-doping Agency outlines a long list of side-effects of using a variety performance enhancing substance (PES). Some are listed below:[8]

Withdrawal may be associated with depression and even suicide (in few cases) Feminization (HCG) Dizziness or fainting

Infertility Thyroid problems (HCG) Loss of co-ordination and balance

These side-effects represent a short list of all possible adverse effects of long-term use of PES's. The unhealthy social and cultural demands that drive student-athletes combined with adverse effect listed above put the youth at a high risk. This makes the need for natural alternatives which are safe and without any side effects more urgent.

Benefits of Exercise:

Exercising regularly is the most important practice for developing exercise tolerance, as well as improving stamina and endurance. Benefits of exercise are well-documented and provide tremendous protection for health in the long-term.

Regular physical activity has the direct effect of promoting adaptability of the heart, the vascular system, and the nervous system. Physical activity also promotes harmonious relationship between respiratory system, cardiovascular system, nervous system, and endocrine (hormonal) system. These stimulating and harmonizing effects confer disease prevention. Researchers have demonstrated positive effect of exercise on cardiovascular and inflammatory disease. Regular exercise resulted in reduction of various inflammatory signaling molecules; these include TNF-alpha, IL-6, INF-y.[9] The anti-inflammatory effect was specific to protecting the cardiovascular system; this was demonstrated by reduction inflammatory markers CRP and Homocysteine.[9,10] Adhesion factors, that promote adhesion of cholesterol to blood vessels to create plaque, vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) were reduced; thus indicating protection from plaque formation in blood vessels.[9]

Doing up to 40-45 minutes of daily exercise is most beneficial. Also, interval exercise that alternates between high intensity and low intensity activity are more beneficial to burn calories and improve endurance.

Herbs that enhance athletic performance:

Withania somnifera, Ashwagandha is a popular herb in many natural health traditions. It is well known for its capacity as an adrenal tonic – that helps cope with stress and anxiety-like problems. Clinical studies have demonstrated that Ashwagandha can help to cut down the stress hormone (cortisol) by 30% and reduce anxiety by nearly 50% within 60 days of use.[11 ]By cutting down the demand for cortisol hormone, Ashwagandha helps to shift the production of hormones towards more anabolic hormones like DHEA and Testosterone. Researchers have also confirmed this testosterone building effect of Ashwagandha in animal and human studies.[12,13] Testosterone is important anabolic hormone: it helps to build muscle tissue, strength, promotes regeneration of tissues, while enhancing mental vigor and vitality.

In Ayurveda, Ashwagandha's actions are described as Balya (that which gives inner strength and vitality) and Breehana (that which improved muscle bulk). Clinical studies have been done validate this classical knowledge. Among healthy volunteers, Ashwagandha given for 30 days in escalating dose helped to improve total muscle strength.[14] the herb also significantly lowered total cholesterol and LDL cholesterols in these volunteers. In a study with children, 111 young volunteers were given Ashwagandha-infused Ghee (clarified butter) preparation or Ashwagandha granules.[15] Over the course of 60 days, children receiving Ashwagandha infused ghee had improvement of 38.88% and those receiving granules had improvement of 50% in muscle strength – both significantly better than placebo effect.

Studies have also shown benefits among professional athletes. In a study on teenage hockey players, Ashwagandha was given to 16 players and placebo for other 16 players.[16] After taking 500mg Ashwagandha capsules twice a day for 8 weeks, players in the experimental group had better hemoglobin and improved VO2max (capacity to carry oxygen) in blood compared to players in placebo group, demonstrating that Ashwagandha improves energy supply to muscles during exercise. In another experiment, 500mg Ashwagandha capsules were given to elite cyclists, 20 years old on average.[17] Eight weeks supplementation with Ashwagandha improved VO2max by 13%; time of exhaustion was also improved significantly. This study demonstrated that Ashwagandha helped to improve energy efficiency and endurance of the cyclists.

Terminalia arjuna, is commonly known by the name Arjuna. This herb is a powerful heart tonic that is commonly used in various cardiovascular conditions by traditional Ayurvedic physicians. A review of studies on the cardiac effect of the herb outlines that: Arjuna helps to prevent fibrosis and oxidative damage to the heart; it promotes activity of anti-oxidant enzymes when heart is under stress; additionally, anti-inflammatory activity of Arjuna prevents excessive injury.[18] These actions have a tonic effect on the heart tissue, thus promoting healthy function of the heart muscle.

Among patients with chest pain related deficient blood flow to the heart muscles (a condition called Angina), Arjuna has proven to be very effective. In one study, 58 patients of heart failure with NYHA stage II & III heart disease were given 500mg of Arjuna, three times a day.[19] The herb improved exercise tolerance and reduced clinical symptoms among these patients as effectively as conventional drug isosorbate mononitrate (40mg/day). In patients with NYHA stage IV heart failure, Arjuna was given in addition to conventional drug.[20] Patients receiving the herb demonstrated improvement in cardiac efficiency:................... http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/athletic-performance-enhancement-ayurvedic-supplements

Dr. Virender Sodhi was the first Ayurvedic and Naturopathic physician in the United States. He received his degree from the Dayanand Ayurvedic Medical College in Jalandar, India in 1980. Consequently, in 1986, the Indian government chose him to share Ayurveda with the Western society as part of a cultural exchange program. Learn more on his website AyurvedicScience.com

A new study published in Lancet reveals that an experimental vaccine manufactured by Merck using a genetically modified adenovirus actually increased the risk of contracting HIV infection in recipients.

Titled, "Recombinant adenovirus type 5 HIV gag/pol/nef vaccine in South Africa: unblinded, long-term follow-up of the phase 2b HVTN 503/Phambili study," researchers randomly assigned a total of 801 HIV-1 uninfected, sexually active adults aged 18—35 years from five sites in South Africa to receive either the vaccine (400) or a placebo (401). 216 (27%) received only one injection, 529 (66%) received only two injections, and 56 (7%) received three injections.

In other words, those receiving vaccines had a 70% increased risk [HR 1·70] of contracting HIV versus those receiving the placebo. The researchers concluded:

"The increased risk of HIV-1 acquisition in vaccine recipients, irrespective of number of doses received, warrants further investigation to understand the biological mechanism. We caution against further use of the Ad5 vector for HIV vaccines."

According to a report about the study by Dr. Mark Thoma, MD:

"Since the end of the last century, there have been a number of HIV vaccines developed and tested. Over 30 clinical trials of these vaccines have been done to see if they conferred immunity to HIV to those volunteers who agreed to participate in the trials. To date, none of the trials have shown that any of the vaccines can produce significant immunity in a number of people against infection with HIV."

Now, with the discovery of vaccine-enhanced risk of HIV-1 acquisition, clearly there is a risk that the 'cure' offered by HIV vaccines may actually be worse than doing nothing at all. The researchers hypothesized that the genetically engineered adenovirus vector used to deliver HIV antigens into the vaccine receiptient may lead to an expansion of activated Ad5-speicfic T cells thereby increasing the number of HIV-1 target cells.

While a specific mechanism has yet to be identified to explain vaccine-enhanced risk, the study clearly shows that rather than conferring increased immunity the vaccine reduces it. With the recent resurgence of measles, whooping cough, varicella (shingles) in highly immunized populations, research like this speaks to fundamental flaws in the vaccine-centric preventive health model. Perhaps the focus should return to supporting immunity by decreasing unnecessary harmful chemical and biological exposures, and optimizing dietary support for natural immunity – it worked for millions of years before synthetic immunity via vaccines became the dominant paradigm only a half century ago. Also, cases of HIV clearance using natural products should provide sufficient motivation to conduct trials on natural compounds with proven efficacy in cell, animal and preclinical studies.

Sayer Ji is founder of Greenmedinfo.com, on the Board of Governors for the National Health Federation, and Fearless Parent, Steering Committee Member of the Global GMO Free Coalition (GGFC), a reviewer at the International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.

The next time you think about celebrating by ordering a nice bottle of French wine, you might want to remember this. Researchers just found that your lovely glass of Bordeaux is probably infused with hormone-disrupting phthalates.

Their study tested the concentrations of various phthalates in French wines and grape spirits marketed in Europe or intended for export. Overall they found that 83% of the samples tested contained phthalates at some level. 100% of the spirits analyzed contained at least one type of phthalates.

Phthalates are considered major potential endocrine disruptors. They are not acutely toxic but active at low levels in the body. Their chemical structures resemble certain natural hormones. Hormone receptors in people and animals are tricked into treating these chemicals as real hormones.

Phthalates are commonly used as plasticizers. They're added to plastics, synthetic coatings and paints to improve their flexibility and resistance to temperature variations. They're also found in personal care products such as perfume, lotions, cosmetics and nail polish. They're even in medication or nutritional supplement coatings.

The European Union regulates the use of phthalates. Regulations cover the use plastics likely to come into contact with food and beverages. The regulation focuses specifically on certain phthalates, listed as toxic for reproduction.

In this study the researchers found four phthalates of concern. One is already not approved to come into contact with food and drink. The others will be banned starting on January 1, 2015.

DBP (dibutyl phthalate)

DBP has been classified as a reproductive and developmental toxicant in California. It's also a popular nail polish ingredient. It was the most common phthalate found by the researchers. 59% of the wines contained significant quantities of DBP.

The amount of DBP found in 11% percent of wines exceeded the levels allowed by European regulations. 19% of spirits exceeded the legal limits.

DEHP (diethylhexl phthalate)

DEHP is a popular chemical additive for making plastics softer. Significant amounts of it were found in 15% of the wine tested.

This chemical along with DBP was the most common phthalate found in spirits. 90% of spirits contained at least one of them.

In recent years, evidence has been building that injectable contraceptive depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (Depo-Provera or DMPA) is associated with an increased risk of HIV infection. Now a study published in mBio, an online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, provides a biological explanation for the phenomenon. The findings will help women make more informed choices about birth control.

"Before this study, there were all these controversial reports, some showing that DMPA increases the risk of HIV infection and others showing it doesn't, and there was no biologic explanation for the differences between studies," said lead author Raina Fichorova, PhD, MD, director of the Division of Genital Tract Biology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School, Boston. "This new study offers an explanation for the inconsistent studies, and it lies in the microbial communities of the reproductive tract."

The researchers analyzed cervical swabs and data from 823 women, between the ages of 18 and 35, who were HIV negative and enrolled in family planning clinics in Uganda and Zimbabwe. Roughly 200 women in this cohort became HIV infected. Women were divided into three groups, those who used DMPA, those who used estrogen-progesterone oral contraceptives, and those who used no hormonal contraceptives. Within each of these groups, the investigators compared results for women with a healthy vaginal environment (dominated by Lactobacillus-morphotypes and free of bacterial vaginosis) to women who had a disturbed vaginal microbiota or an infection from bacteria, fungi or parasites.

The team then looked to see if the women taking oral contraceptives or receiving DMPA were more at risk for immunological changes that can increase a person's vulnerability to HIV infection than women who weren't taking a hormonal contraceptive. They found that DMPA use was associated with an increase in these immunological changes, and that the presence of certain vaginal infections further increased this risk. In addition, women who had certain vaginal infections or disturbed resident microbiota and took oral contraceptives were also at increased risk for this unfavorable, immunological profile.

For example, women who had herpes and took DMPA, as well as women who had herpes or disturbed vaginal microbiota and at the same time took levonorgestrel-containing oral contraceptives, were more likely to have increased levels of proteins that attract HIV host cells. This kind of inflammatory response is implicated in increasing the risk of HIV infection, transmission, or progression.

The research team also found that concurrent infections or disturbed vaginal microbiota may also exacerbate the suppression of the immune system by DMPA, thus adding to a woman's vulnerability to HIV. For example, DMPA appeared to suppress immune responses to Trichomonas vaginalis, a wide-spread parasite that aids HIV infection.

"Women deserve to know more so that they can make informed choices about birth control. Both men and women should be educated about our findings, as both partners are at risk and need to prevent and treat infections," said Dr. Fichorova. "Studies of new contraceptive methods should evaluate how they impact the microbial environment and how they act in concert with preexisting, treatable microbial disturbances, to weaken the mucosal barrier against HIV and other infections. Our hope is to prevent the unwanted side effects of available hormonal contraceptives and improve and save millions of lives by developing new affordable tools and approaches to restore and keep the healthy vaginal microbial environment in women of reproductive age."